Marc | November 27, 2009
Max Forte has just produced another posting on the historical relation of Anthropology and Science entitled The Social Production of Science and Anthropology as Knowledge for Domination. Don’t let the title put you off, it is well worth reading and, having studied the period under question myself, I can also say that it is, in [...]
Marc | October 7, 2008
I just finished re-reading a very interesting post by John Matthew Barlow over at the CT Lab on Objectivity and Revisionist Historiography. Towards the end of it, he notes As the American historian Peter Novick notes, the idea of objectivity in history is about progress, moving towards some objective truth about the past. But this [...]
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